Tag: African manufacturing

When Softcare debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 10, few outside Asia had heard of it. Yet the “King of African Diapers” saw its shares jump 33% on day one, valuing the company at over $2.57 billion. Unlike the tech startups dominating headlines, ...

As China navigates a domestic economic downturn and a whipped-up global geoeconomic scene, its trade with Africa keeps changing. A new report by the Rhodium Group in collaboration with the Atlantic Council projects how Chinese economic growth trends will affect ...

​China's latest entry into Egypt, where it will establish a $658 million industrial complex focused on producing phosphoric acid using locally extracted phosphate ore, enhances the African nation's manufacturing profile. The China-Egypt industrial complex move follows promises China made ...

At a recent ministerial meeting in the central Chinese city of Changsha, Beijing announced an ambitious new phase of its engagement with Africa: the possibility of eliminating customs duties on exports from all 53 African countries (except for Eswatini, which maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan). While many ...